Quote by Maya Lin
To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own persona

To me, the American Dream is being able to follow your own personal calling. To be able to do what you want to do is incredible freedom. – Maya Lin

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The definition of a modern approach to war is the acknowledgement of individual lives lost. – Maya Lin

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War
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You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition. – Maya Lin

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Learning
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I deliberately did not read anything about the Vietnam War because I felt the politics of the war eclipsed what happened to the veterans. The politics were irrelevant to what this memorial was. – Maya Lin

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Politics
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To become self-aware, people must be allowed to hear a plurality of opinions and then make up their own minds. They must be allowed to say, write and publish whatever they want. Freedom of expression is the most basic, but fundamental, right. Without it, human beings are reduced to automatons. – Ma Jian

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Freedom

If I am outspoken of the dangers of intemperance to members of our armed forces, it is because we are all especially concerned for the welfare of those who are risking their lives in the cause of freedom. – William Lyon Mackenzie King

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Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isnt really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists, and have a certain amount of freedom when they work, and theyre more like independent filmmakers making their way through big studios. – Vincent Cassel

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Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom. – Viktor E. Frankl

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A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people. – Peter McArthur

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Pop music has progressed. – Steven Patrick Morrissey

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I approached everything, my job, my family, my romances, with intensity. – Gene Tierney

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I will not say that women have no character rather, they have a new one every day. – Heinrich Heine

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